< Hand-book of Volapük
SYNOPSIS OF THE VOLAPÜK INFLECTION
The changes of form which words may take are all contained in the following
table:
| 1. | Plural Ending | -s | ||||||||||
| 2. | Case Endings | - | -a | -e | -i | |||||||
| nom. | pos. | dat. | obj. | |||||||||
| who? | whose? | to whom? | whom. | |||||||||
| 3. | Gender Prefixes | ji- | om- | |||||||||
| fem. | mas. | |||||||||||
| Gender Ending | -os | |||||||||||
| neu. | ||||||||||||
| 4. | Adjectiv Endings | -ik | -id | |||||||||
| -um | -ün | |||||||||||
| comp. | sup. | |||||||||||
| 5. | Adverb Endings | -o | -na | |||||||||
| -umo | -üno | |||||||||||
| 6. | Person Endings | -ob | -ol | -om | -of | -os | -on | |||||
| m. | f. | n. | indef. | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | ||||||||
| 7. | Tense Arguments | |||||||||||
| Activ | - | ä- | e- | i- | o- | u- | ||||||
| Passiv | pa- | pä- | pe- | pi- | po- | pu- | ||||||
| pres. | imp. | per. | plup. | fut. | fut per. | |||||||
| does | did | has | had | will | will have | |||||||
| Freq. Activ | ai- | äi- | ei- | ii- | oi- | ui- | ||||||
| Passiv | pai- | päi- | pei- | pii- | poi- | pui- | ||||||
| Gerundiv Arguments | ö- | pö- | ||||||||||
| act. | pas. | |||||||||||
| 8. | Mood Endings | -öl | -ön | -öd | -ös | -öz | (-öx) | -öv | -la | -li | -ok | |
| part | inf. | imp. | pot. | cond. | conj. | interrog. | ref. | |||||
| 9. | Preposition Ending | ü | ||||||||||
| 10. | Interjection Ending | ö |
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